Bobcats claim Brendan Haywood

[Dpantherman]

Marc Stein ‏@ESPNSteinLine

NBA's 30 teams just notified that Brendan Haywood has been claimed on waivers by Bobcats

Rick Bonnell ‏@rick_bonnell

The #Bobcats have successfully claimed center Brendan Haywood off waivers. Presumably, they have their starting center.

[Ivan The Awesome]

HOLY poo HOLY poo HOLY poo HOLY poo!

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Sweet, now let's just get Jamison and call it an off season.

2012-2013 Current Roster

PG: Kemba Walker, Ramon Sessions

SG: Gerald Henderson, Ben Gordon, Reggie Williams, Matt Carroll

SF: Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Jeffrey Taylor, Derrick Brown

PF: Bismack Biyombo, Tyrus Thomas

C: Brendan Haywood, Byron Mullens, DeSagana Diop

If we sign Jamison, I can see Carroll, Thomas and Diop as the three inactive's for each game.

[Dpantherman]

@daldridgetnt:

Charlotte's winning bid for Haywood, per league source, was $2.05M.

@daldridgetnt:

Mavericks will pay remaining $6.34M of Haywood's salary this season and $25.2M of guaranteed money left on his contract.

[SOJA]

good deal, I know this sounds bad but I hope we are just improving from "worst team ever" to "pretty bad, but promsing young team that stil will end up with a high pick in next year's draft"

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Marc Stein: If all those teams proceed w/actual bids, Scola auction would be five-team affair decided SUN at 5 PM ET. ONLY under-the-cap teams can bid Twitter

Marc Stein: So in today's big amnesty machinations: Bobcats claim Mavs castoff Brendan Haywood & Wolves castoff Darko Milicic now available to masses Twitter

[GotSwag?]

We have had a very nice offseason. I like the roster. Its going to be an exciting year. Things are looking up for the Bobcats! We will have the money to sign a star as well and have created a roster to where a star could say, ok I think I could be that missing piece.

Thats all I asked for.

[GotSwag?]

David Aldridge‏@daldridgetnt

Mavericks will pay remaining $6.34M of Haywood's salary this season and $25.2M of guaranteed money left on his contract.

:D Another reason why this is a great move.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

That's what happens when you use the amnesty clause, which is why when people are calling for Tyrus Thomas and Diop to be amnestied they are forgetting this.

The only think that amnestying a player does is give you more cap space and the Bobcats have plenty of that.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Let's nominate Cho for GM of the year because we will obviously win more than seven games.

[Panthers128]

This still isn't good enough to compete but these offseason moves are much better than those they've made in the past. Now let's wait and see if anyone refuses to play for the Bobcats.

[TANTRIC-NINJA]

How many games do you think Haywood plays...in limited time he gets banged up every season it seems. He adds a presence but id rather have a Scola or JJ hickson.. Ben Gordon is really an awkward fit for the roser..he adds shooting but a 6'0 tall backcourt is not exciting.

I want to see a lot of MKG, Taylor and Gerald Henderson...if they go small.

[Zaximus]

Great move. We'll still get a high draft pick, but we'll hopefully be a bit more respectable and fun to watch (ie sell some tickets) with this roster we're putting together. Build through draft and smart signings. A big like Haywood for 2 mill a year, at age 32, is not bad at all. He won't put up a ton of points but he'll give us another defensive guy down low when Biz is on the bench. If Tyrus can somehow turn it around we'll have a decent defensive front court to play around with.

This offseason continues to be a success. I can't expect anything more than what has been done. If we can get Jamison or if we possibly go after Scola, that'll be icing on the cake.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

How many games do you think Haywood plays...in limited time he gets banged up every season it seems. He adds a presence but id rather have a Scola or JJ hickson.. Ben Gordon is really an awkward fit for the roser..he adds shooting but a 6'0 tall backcourt is not exciting.

I want to see a lot of MKG, Taylor and Gerald Henderson...if they go small.

That's not a a small lineup at all, two of those three guys are great sized small forwards.

If they go small, expect a Walker and Gordon combo, which shouldn't happen at all because those two probably can't play together. When Gordon is in, I expect Sessions to be in.

Also I give Haywood 3/4 of the season.

Finally, they are still looking to bring in another power forward (Humphries, Jamison, Scola, and Landry are all options).